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Effects of Cardiac Rehabilitation (CR) on Functional Capacity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors

NCT02575976 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 115

Last updated 2022-04-28

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Summary

The purpose of this trial are to pragmatically investigate whether participation in a comprehensive CR (i.e., exercise with education) program in a Latin American MIC results in better functional capacity, cardiovascular risk factor control, health behavior, disease-related knowledge, depressive symptoms and lower mortality when compared exercise only CR or wait list control.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

comprehensive CR

In the comprehensive CR arm, 24 sessions education will be offered, of 30 minutes duration beyond the exercises already performed in the cardiac rehabilitation program (The main program is 6 months in duration, with 36 1-hour exercise sessions)

OTHER

exercise-based CR

The main program is 6 months in duration, with 36 1-hour exercise sessions.

OTHER

wait list control

No cardiac rehabilitation.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of Minas Gerais

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Raquel R Britto, Post doc · Federal University of Minas Gerais

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-31
Primary Completion
2017-10-31
Completion
2017-10-31

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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Diseases

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